Ministry of higher and secondary special education of the republic uzbekistan state world languages university

1.2. Historical background of typological investigations 
The questions of timing the history of linguistic comparison are quite compli-
cated and are the ones, which have not found their final solution yet. The history of 
linguistic comparison is an integral part of linguistic science development, which is 
bound with the history of thenation and cognition. That is why there are no generally 
accepted criteria for timing this problem yet. We will see Dr. Buranov’s viewpoint.
In his book “Сравнительнаятипологияанглийскогоитюркскихязыков” he
 
identifies 4 periods in the history of typological studies:
The first period is characterized as a spontaneous or 
evolutionary.
It begins with the emergence of the first 
linguistic works. That 
period was over not long 
before the Renaissance. 
In Ancient Greece, the 
language was studied in 
the 
frames 
of 
philosophy. The major 
issue, which was in the 
focus of discussion, was acorrelation of substances to 
their names. Still, already in the works of Protagoras 
and Aristotle, there are statements related to 
distinguishing words, word combinations, linguistic 
categories like gender, case, number, thedefinition of the sentence, classification of 
words into names and actions or parts of speech. These works served as the basis for 
distinguishing linguistics into an independent science. E.g. many scholars, while 
compiling grammars of separate languages used the models of the languages with 
already described grammatical structures. (The principle of analogy). For example, 
while compiling the first English grammars the models of Latin were widely used.
The first grammars for the European languages were based on the Latin Grammars. 

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